Debian Developers - Bug#301527: ITP: mazeofgalious -- The Maze of Galious

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Bug#301527: ITP: mazeofgalious -- The Maze of Galious

Michael K. Edwards

2005-07-14, 2:49 am

Added debian-legal; please drop debian-devel on follow-ups.

On 7/9/05, John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org> wrote:
>=20
> There is no such thing as a copyrighted name. The name does appear to ha=
ve
> been a trademark at one time, but if enough time has gone by without a
> product being marketed under that name the trademark will have lapsed.

It does however infringe the original's copyright in characters,
mise-en-scene, etc., as well as a plethora of literal elements
("Nearly the same look-and-feel", per your linked page). Compare the
discussion of OpenTTD at
http://lists.debian.org/debian-lega...5/msg00628.html . And
please keep it out of Debian; we have more than enough abandonware
clones as it is.

- Michael